Southeast Alaska Watershed Symposium

Join us November 4th, 5th and 6th 2013!

The Symposium will be held at Centennial Hall in Juneau, Alaska.

The Southeast Alaska Watershed Coalition and the Southeast Alaska Fish Habitat Partnership invite you to the Southeast Alaska Watershed Symposium to share information about our local fish and their important habitats in Southeast Alaska.

No cost to attend.

Register here: http://alaskawatershedcoalition.org/southeast-alaska-watershed-symposiu/

Posters welcome: http://alaskawatershedcoalition.org/southeast-alaska-watershed-symposiu/poster-session/

More information by email to either Jess Kayser at alaskawatersheds@gmail.com or Debbie Hart at coordinator@sealaskafishhabitat.org

Symposium Goals:

This event will provide fisheries and aquatic resource professionals with an opportunity to share information, tools, and methods which promote fish habitat conservation and support aquatic resource management in Southeast Alaska.

It is envisioned that the Southeast Alaska Watershed Symposium will be a catalyst for professionals working in Southeast Alaska to share relevant work and recent efforts occurring in watersheds across the region as well as provide an opportunity for participants to network and identify strategic partnerships that will advance common fish habitat conservation and aquatic resource management goals.

This symposium is focused on topics of fish distribution, stream/river habitat, watershed assessment and prioritization methods, relevant geospatial tools and information on emerging research in the region. Additionally, the symposium offers an overview of the Clean Water Act Section 404 program and proposed Southeast Alaska Mitigation Fund.  It is our hope that this symposium will provide a baseline level of information sharing and become an annual event for future exploration of these and other important thematic topics.

Session Objectives:

1. Provide participants with an overview and demonstration of current fish distribution and fish habitat inventory activities throughout Southeast Alaska.
2. Demonstrate watershed scale assessment and prioritization schemas with applications to support fish habitat conservation and aquatic resource management.
3. Showcase geospatial tools and emerging research with applications to support aquatic resource management in Southeast Alaska.
4. Provide participants with an overview of the Clean Water Act Section 404 program in Alaska and the role aquatic resource mitigation can play to support mitigation of development impacts to wetlands and fish habitat.